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The print
- Technique
- Facsimile giclée
- Sheet
- 39¼ × 26½ in, original size
- Format
- Double Elephant Folio
- Paper
- White etching paper, 270 g/m²
- Ink
- Archival ink
- Edition
- Limited to 250 prints
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Limited edition of 250
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Reproduced from the original in the Teylers Museum, Haarlem.
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A facsimile of the original sheet
- Photographed from the plate in the Teylers Museum’s copy of The Birds of America, Haarlem.
- Proofed against that sheet under daylight, until the colours match.
- Printed at the full size of the sheet, with its margins and lettering, in an edition of 250.
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About this plate
Two Great Auks, one swimming low in a rough grey-green sea, the other standing upright on a rock, with tall cliffs and a cloudy sky behind. The flightless seabird stood about 75 centimetres tall and bred on a few bare islands in the North Atlantic. Audubon never saw one alive: he searched for it off Labrador in 1833 and found none, and painted it from a stuffed specimen he bought in London in 1836. The cliffs and the waves he left to his engraver, Robert Havell. On 3 June 1844 the last known breeding pair was killed on Eldey, off Iceland.
Great Auk (Alca impennis) is plate 341 of The Birds of America by John James Audubon (1827–1838). This facsimile is made from the copy in the Teylers Museum, Haarlem, and printed at the size of the original sheet, 39¼ × 26½ in (100 × 67 cm).
About the original
John James Audubon (1785-1851) published The Birds of America between 1827 and 1838: 435 hand-coloured plates, printed on Double Elephant Folio sheets so that every bird could be shown at life size.
On 26 August 1833 Victor Gifford Audubon sold a complete set to the Teylers Museum in Haarlem, which still keeps it. Heritage Prints makes its facsimiles from that set, at the size of the original sheet.
- Title
- The Birds of America
- Published
- 1827-1838
- Format
- Double Elephant Folio
- Original in
- Teylers Museum, Haarlem
- In our collection
- 435 prints
